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01His daughter Tullia drove her chariot over her father's corpse in the street, the spot later called the Vicus Sceleratus.
02Servius Tullius reportedly built Rome's first city walls, the Servian Wall, enclosing all seven hills.
03He instituted the census — counting every Roman citizen with their property — a tool of power unprecedented in Italy.

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01Serrano received a $15,000 NEA-affiliated award for 'Piss Christ' in 1987 before the controversy erupted.
02Senator Jesse Helms displayed the photograph on the Senate floor in 1989 and demanded NEA funding be stripped.
03A physical print was attacked with hammers by Catholic protesters in Avignon, France, in April 2011.

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01Paris Hilton named her kinkajou 'Baby Luv'; it bit her arm severely enough to require hospital treatment.
02Kinkajous are nocturnal, arboreal, and possess a prehensile tail — entirely unsuited to paparazzi flashbulbs.
03Their diet is 90% fruit, making them major rainforest seed dispersers across Central and South America.

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01Bessus stabbed Darius III in 330 BC, left him dying in a cart, and claimed the Achaemenid throne.
02Alexander had Bessus mutilated — nose and ears removed — before sending him to Ecbatana for formal execution.
03Bessus ruled as 'Artaxerxes V' for roughly two years; no coin, no monument survives bearing that name.

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01Soros shorted £10 billion in a single day, forcing Britain to exit the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
02The UK Treasury spent an estimated $27 billion in reserves trying to defend the pound — and failed within hours.
03Black Wednesday cost British taxpayers roughly £3.4 billion; Soros personally cleared over $1 billion by market close.

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01Unit 100, based in Changchun, produced anthrax, glanders, and rinderpest agents specifically to destroy enemy livestock.
02The unit contaminated rivers and grazing land used by Soviet and Mongolian cavalry units.
03Its commanding officer, Yujiro Wakamatsu, also received immunity from prosecution under the US deal.

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01Gödel was 25 when he published the incompleteness theorems in 1931, ending Hilbert's formalist program.
02He encoded mathematical statements as numbers — 'Gödel numbering' — so a system could talk about itself.
03The Second Theorem: no consistent system can prove its own consistency — foundations float free.

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01Cargill's annual revenues have exceeded $160 billion, surpassing the GDP of many mid-sized nations.
02Founded in 1865 in Conover, Iowa, the company has remained family-controlled for over 150 years.
03Cargill operates in 70 countries and handles an estimated 25% of all U.S. grain exports.

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Illustrated Jonah from the 15th-century Kennicott Bible

01Jonah is the only biblical prophet sent to a foreign enemy city — Nineveh, capital of the Assyrian empire.
02He successfully converts 120,000 Ninevites, then sits down and wishes he were dead out of spite.
03The fish is mentioned in three verses; Jonah's tantrum over a dead gourd plant gets an entire chapter.

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